Switching device, information processing device, and recording medium for failure notification control program

• US 8,498,214 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2011
• Issued: 07/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Umezuki, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, MINH TRANG T
• Application Number:
  US13/052,236
• Publication Number:
  US 20110239058A1
• Time in Patent Office: 862 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/242
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications

Abstract

A switching device includes a storage unit configured to store management information including an updated management information and a before updated management information, a specification unit configured to acquire an information for specifying management information stored in a management device which manages a failure that has occurred in an object device for the failure to be monitored and specify management information stored in the storage unit on the basis of the acquired information, and an information sending unit configured to send a failure information to the management device on the basis of the management information which has been specified using the specification unit in the case that the failure has been detected.

Claims

1. A switching device comprising:

a storage unit configured to store management information of an object being monitored by a management device to detect failure of the object, the management information including updated management information of the object and before updated management information of the object;

a specification unit configured to

acquire information for specifying management information stored in the management device and which is used by the management device to monitor the object, and

specify, on the basis of the acquired information, one of the updated management information and the before updated management information of the management information stored in the storage unit, to thereby match the specified one of the updated management information and the before updated management information stored in the storage unit of the switching device and the specified management information stored in the management device and used by the management device to monitor the object; and

an information sending unit configured to send failure information to the management device on the basis of the specified one of the updated management information and the before updated management information stored in the storage unit, in the case that the failure has been detected.

2. The switching device according to claim 1, wherein

in the case that the management information stored in the management device has been updated, the specification unit

acquires the information for specifying the management information stored in the management device from the management device, and

specifies one of the updated management information and the before updated management information stored in the storage unit on the basis of the acquired information.

3. The switching device according to claim 1, wherein

in the case that the specified one of the updated management information and the before updated management information is not stored in said switching device and is instead stored in another switching device which is cascade-connected with said switching device, the specification unit specifies the one of the updated management information and the before updated management information which is stored in the cascade-connected switching device, and

in the case that the sending unit has detected the failure, the information sending unit acquires the one of the updated management information and the before updated management information stored in the cascade-connected switching device which has been specified using the specification unit and sends the failure information to the management device on the basis of the acquired management information.

4. The switching device according to claim 3, wherein

in the case that the specification unit has specified the one of the updated management information and the before updated management information stored in the cascade-connected switching device, the specification unit stores a specified one of the updated management information and the before updated management information which is stored in the cascade-connected switching device into the storage unit, and

in the case that the sending unit has detected the failure, the information sending unit sends the failure information to the management device on the basis of the one of the updated management information and the before updated management information which is stored in the storage unit and has been stored in the cascade-connected switching device.

5. The switching device according to claim 3, wherein

in the case that communication between said switching device and the management device has been disconnected, the information sending unit sends the failure information to the management device via the cascade-connected switching device.

6. The switching device according to claim 1, wherein

in the case that information specifying the management information has been acquired from a plurality of management devices, the specification unit specifies management information that each of the management devices manages from the management information that the storage unit stores, on the basis of the acquired information for each management device, and

in the case that the information sending unit has detected the failure, the sending unit sends the failure information to each of the plurality of management devices on the basis of the management information for each management device which has been specified using the specification unit.

7. The switching device according to claim 1, wherein the updated management information is management information after a firmware update, and the before updated management information is management information before the firmware update.

8. An information processing device comprising:

a storage unit configured to store management information of an object being monitored by a management device to detect failure of the object, the management information including updated management information of the object and before updated management information of the object;

a specification unit configured to

acquire information for specifying management information stored in the management device and which is used by the management device to monitor the object, and

specify, on the basis of the acquired information, one of the updated management information and the before updated management information of the management information stored in the storage unit; and

an information sending unit configured to send failure information to the management device on the basis of the specified one of the updated management information and the before updated management information stored in the storage unit, in the case that the failure has been detected.

9. The information processing device according to claim 8, wherein the updated management information is management information after a firmware update, and the before updated management information is management information before the firmware update.

10. A computer-readable, non-transitory medium storing a program that, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute a procedure, wherein a storage unit stores management information of an object being monitored by a management device to detect failure of the object, the management information including updated management information of the object and before updated management information of the object, the procedure comprising:

acquiring information used to specify management information stored in the management device and which is used by the management device to monitor the object;

specifying, on the basis of the acquired information, one of the updated management information and the before updated management information of the management information stored in the storage unit; and

sending the management device failure information on the basis of the specified one of the updated management information and the before updated management information stored in the storage unit, in the case that the failure has been detected.

11. The computer-readable, non-transitory medium according to claim 10, wherein the updated management information is management information after a firmware update, and the before updated management information is management information before the firmware update.